8 Replies to “Ask Me Anything: How does being female affect your motorcycling?”

Wow. Great response; thank you. I appreciate your insightful thoughts in the first half of the video; they make sense; and then I was suddenly horrified by your story in the second half. Wasn’t anticipating that and yet it perfectly illustrates the dilemma of being female in contemporary society.

You are completely correct that the situations that arise in public are due to what happens in other people’s minds, not ours. Being female/black/TG/etc. isn’t a problem; our status merely triggers reactions in other people, some of which are ugly because that’s what resides in their brains.

Thanks, Mike. The light colored Klim gear was un-cleanable. It stained so badly and looked awful. I’ve had other light -colored brands (such as REVIT) that were easy to take care of and didn’t have the same staining if you washed them. Black is just easier 🙂

Sketchy situation averted. But on the flip side, he _probably_ just wanted to show you his etchings.

To be honest I thought you were going to say ‘I struggle to operate the big scary levers with my tiny girly hands!’, and then note that you are emotionally scarred every day because you couldn’t get the Tiger in pink (although.. funny story about that… remember the ‘nuclear red’ colour scheme? There used to be a staff perk at Triumph that for all I know is still available where if you are a member of staff and bought a new Triumph you could have it in any colour that any of the bikes in the range came in. I’ve seen some wonderfully varied factory paint jobs on ‘the wrong Triumph’ as a result in the past, but apparently no employee has ever been moved by ‘nuclear red’…).